Quotes About Strategy

You have a bad habit of listing anything that can go wrong, Volger. I have always considered that a good habit

So my foolhardiness has produced the correct strategy, Count?" "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.

Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game

The product managers now meet together as a group. They think about what they can accomplish together to meet their group performance. Now

Those on the right can do what those on the left talk about," Nixon replied.

Galula had noted that counterinsurgency is only 20 percent military and 80 percent everything else—politics mostly, but also economics, development, and information operations.

I think what actually works best is local-level individual targeting of key leadership nodes.

Ten soldiers wisely led, Will beat a hundred without a head Euripides (fifth century BC)

It is one of the issues that will have to be worked through however let me make the point and I think anyone would accept that if you set it up properly, not only will you get better environmental outcomes, you have a chance to create more wealth with the available resource.

All the politics in the world are nothing else but a kind of analysis of the quantity of probability in casual events, and a good politician signifies no more but one who is dexterous at such calculations.

Try a little subtlety in self-defense; it'll help, you'll find out.

Before investing in devices, it is important to first define the educational vision and goals for digital learning.

More history is made by secret handshakes than by battles, bills and proclamations.

Politicians, like generals, have a tendency to fight the last war.

Well, Judy, I would hope in the new year, we could start thinking about politics not like it was the Super Bowl, where you always have to have one team that wins and the other team has to be a loser.

To have a good idea, stop having a bad one. The trick was to inhibit the easy, obvious, but ineffective attempts, permitting a better solution

hard-working Krafve explains gamely that when a company

The one that's really new is the lowest-priced, too!" In the more rarefied sectors of Madison Avenue, a resort to rhymed slogans is usually regarded as an indication of artistic depravity induced by commercial necessity. From

How do you become First in command, when you're second in command? You kill the guy that's first in command!

The winning formula for success in investing is owning the entire stock market through an index fund, and then doing nothing. Just stay the course.

The simple fact is that selecting a mutual fund that will outpace the stock market over the long term is, using Cervantes' wonderful observation, like "looking for a needle in the haystack." So I offer you Bogle's corollary: "Don't look for the needle in the haystack. Just buy the haystack!

And we think more like managers, whose task is to do things right, than as leaders, whose task is to do the right thing.

The greatest enemy of a good plan is the dream of a perfect plan." Stick to the good plan.

It is simply not worth paying anybody more than 1 percent to manage your money. Above $1 million, you should be paying no more than 0.75 percent, and above $5 million, no more than 0.5 percent. . . . Your adviser should use index/passive stock funds wherever possible. If